The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-03-31

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The water is higher at Bismarck Dak. !,
| than ever before Railroad communica
tlon 1s'threatened There Is no longer any
doubt of tile drowning of the Jackson
family at Painted Woods-father, mother
and two children.
| In the Rhode Island House of Represen-
tatiyes5 q resolution proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution, abolishing the
registry tax and property qualifications,
was unanimously passed.
st. Mary's Catholic, st. Pauls Episcopal,
and First Presbyterian churches at New
| burgh,tN n. Y, were entered by thieves on
| last Tuesday night and the poor boxes in
each robbed.
Maxwell Ernst Virgo, an Englishmm,
| 32years of age, went violently insane in the
office of A. II. Hemingway, Secretary of
the Y. NJ. 9. A., in Chicago, on Sunday
afternoon. He was addicted to gambling.
The President has appointed Oscar S.
Strauss, Of New York, to be envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipoteutiary of
the United States to Turkey.
All the people who knew all about Mr..
| Beecher without knowing anything about
him in reality are much surprised to learn
that he was proud of his ancestry and early
| poverty.
| Nina Van Zandt, who won the prize for
sentimental idioCy by marrying Anarchist
| Spies by proxy, is occasionally permitted
| to touch that hero's tinger-tipS throu OH the
grated door of his cell.
| Alfred Sully made one deal without
dropping any cards the other day, his check
for $3.50 having been received by the New
| York IV0rhl, which has in hand the fund
for q national conservatory.
S. II. Baker, Il prominent real estate spec
ulator of Minneapolis, is wanted by his
friends about 100000 worth All his
property is heavily mortgaged and the
funds therefor arc gone. Canada.
Congressman Wills Of Kentucky, says
President Cleveland "has grown very rap.
| idly in the regard of Congress during the
last session, his veto Of the dependent pen
sion bill going far towards that end"
a train on the Norfolk and Western
railroad went through Big Otter River
bridge, about twenty miles above Lynch
| burg Thursday afternoon. 1t is stated that
| eight persons were killed.
| n rain, Slect and snow storm has pros.
trated the telegraph wires in all directions
from New York and the transmission of
dispatches is much delayed. Communica-
ton with the West is almost entirely cut off,
The United States government has
bought from the city Of Charleston the
guard house property, for so, 900, whcrcon
10 erect the new public building. The
guard house was wrecked by the earth.
quake last year.
Mrs. Cleveland unveiled the portrait of
Mrs. 'Dolly" Madison Wednesday night.
The occasion was Il charitable entertain
mcnt in aid Of the Washington City Or
phan Asylum. Mrs. Madison was one of
the six founders of the institution.
The Missouri Legislature has adjourned
sine dc, but Governor Marmaduke notified
both houses that he would soon call them
together, in extra session. to enact laws to
enforce the constitutional provisions in
reference to railroads.
There was a large meeting at Cooper
Union, New York, Monday night under
the auspices Of the National League. to
protest against the proposed cocrcivC meas.
ure about to be introduced in the British
! Parliament.
| Whitaker Quaker Church, aJ Buffalo.
Kansas, was blown to atoms by Il giant
powder explosion Friday night. Frank
Van Meter was arrested, charged with hav.
ing committed the deed. circumstances
are strong against him.
Walter II. L0wt0u, il now transpircs,
was entangcd with a rich widow, and only
the day before he left, CounSCllOrs ThOmn-
son " Ackley recorded Il deed making over
TO her some of Lawton's New Jersey prop
crty, in addition to his Harlem residence.
Fifteen PinkcrtOn men who have been on
duty night and day the past month ON the
coal docks at Elizabeth, n. j., have been
Withdrawn. All the strikers reported for
work and, with but few exceptions, were
Employed
Philipcria Muth aged eighteen year, Il
bride of scarcely two weeks, shot herself
dead on Monday in her room in New York.
The motive for the deed is wrapped in
mystery. Her husband is Il carpenter and
was absent from home
Mayor Hewitt. of New York, scarcely
| gives his constituents time to recover from
one surprise before treating them TO another
his latest political "brcall" being an IN.
qualified condemnation of political assess.
mGntS.
The announcement is made that the
Memphis and Little Rock railroad will be
sold under foreclosure on April l3. JAY
| Gould is said to be a heavy stOckholdcr in
this road, and it is suspected that he will
be bidder at the sale
a passenger train on the Baltimore and
Philadelphia railroad collided with n
through freight train at Leslie about ?
o'clock Wednesday morning, and both
| trains were badly wrecked and the lOcOmo-
tivcs were entirely tclescopcd.
Ex-Governor Irwin, of Iowa, says the
Republicans of that State will be for Ali
son in good faith. "Conkling would sup
port him, he says, "and believe in letting
Conkling be for the Republican nominee if
| he wants to be-"
| The York age says that NVr. Randall is
the most plainly dressed and the most hum.
ply housed member of Congress at Wash
mgton, and it has been said of him that he
has had to remain indoors while pair of
| bull'cycs were being inserted in the scat of
his only pair of brcechcs.
There is a conflict of jurisdiction in Vir-
ginia. Lawyer VIM. l.. Royal was fined
| $50 by State court for intimidating n
grand jury. lie refused to pay the ine
and was committed to Jail. lie intends to
appeal to the Federal courts.
Elijah Smith, the Oregon railway mar-
nate, thinks breakfast the great meal of the
day. He takes no lunch and is careless
about dinner, but starts in on every DAYS
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